sneaking
As they started running, they inhaled big gulps of the watery air and almost retched.
Fortunately, there were no footsteps pursuing me.
Security guards were not allowed to use the stairs, and they verified that this rule was correct.
The good times didn't last long, as the annoying footsteps echoed upstairs.
Da-da-da
They were at the staircase on the second floor and could hear the guy getting closer and closer to the third floor.
Wang Keke gnashed her teeth in annoyance and quietly suggested, "Captain, how about we hide on the second floor for a while?"
Lu Miao lowered his voice and said, "If my guess is correct, we will be trapped if we hide on the second floor."
The two were confused.
Instantly, they understood.
That guy kept going downstairs, not even trying to get to the third floor!
What was it doing downstairs? Looking for blue clothes to wear?
Before they had time to think about it, they had already seen the half-exposed flippers from the angle between the stairs.
Bigger than the face!
Bloody.
Lu Miao immediately led them back to the first floor.
I heard the sound of running footsteps, and the other party's dragging footsteps obviously quickened the pace.
Snap! Snap!
Just come at them!
He Ping'an was covered in cold sweat and Wang Keke's scalp was tingling.
As soon as they rushed out of the corner of the stairs on the first floor, they saw a man in blue clothes standing in front of the elevator.
Hearing the noise, the man turned around.
His face was scratched and bleeding, with some dried blood remaining, and his eyes were faintly red.
Lu Miao quickly retracted his gaze and ran into the security room holding a team member in each hand.
"close the door!"
Wang Keke, who was quick-eyed and quick-handed, closed the door.
The three men leaned their sweaty backs against the door to prevent the security guards from breaking in.
Just at that moment, the sound of "clicking" footsteps broke into the first floor and approached the security room.
Wang Keke's heart was in her throat and her scalp felt as if an electric current was running through it, making it numb and about to explode.
He Ping'an, who was still relatively calm, stood against the door with a straight look in his eyes.
Lu Miao heard the "click" sound of footsteps stopping, followed by a noise.
Outside the door, a hunchbacked man with blood-stained white clothes ran around the corner and found that the security guard in blue clothes was also there.
In a moment of horror, he met the security guard's red eyes, suddenly remembered the rules, and turned around to escape.
Snap!
He had just taken a step when his collar was grabbed from behind and tightened around his neck.
“No!”
The security guard was as strong as an ox and dragged him into the elevator.
"No--"
“Help—”
Three pairs of eyes peeked out from under the window, watching the neighbor in white clothes stained with blood struggling hard. However, the security guard dragged him into the elevator easily like dragging a dog.
The slowly closing elevator door blocked out the man's cries for help.
The three of them stared at the numbers on the elevator display board jumping.
2
3
…
The elevator stopped for a while on the 5th floor and then continued upwards.
6
…
12
Finally, the elevator stopped on the 12th floor.
The three had no way of knowing whether their neighbor lived on the 5th or 12th floor, but they were sure that he would not harass them again for the time being.
"I was scared to death..." Wang Keke was weak and hungry. "This incident tells us that it's deadly to meddle in the affairs of neighbors. They always wanted to get close to us, and now they are suffering."
"Why didn't he go to the third floor? Did he know somehow that we were on the first floor?"
Lu Miao cast an admiring look at He Ping'an. "I guess the organs of the residents who have been mentally polluted have become very sensitive, and they can use the facilities in the building to capture our voices."
"So powerful?" Wang Keke shuddered. "Will what we say now be heard by other mentally polluted residents?"
"It is very likely."
"Then let's go back quickly."
As soon as they opened the door, they saw a white shadow flash by at the staircase diagonally opposite.
Lu Miao sneered and chased after him.
As soon as she put her hand on the other person's shoulder, he immediately turned sideways to release the force and grabbed her wrist.
She turned her hand and grabbed the other person's wrist. In an instant, she pulled the other person's hand behind his back.
Bang!
Lu Miao pressed the man's face against the wall, with his elbow against his vest.
It was a woman, wearing a yellow film earring on her left ear.
"It turned out to be Captain Guo of the Yellow Team."
The woman who was being pressed down felt pain on her right cheek, and her mouth was filled with the smell of blood. She spit out bloody teeth. "Since you recognized me, why don't you let me go?"
Lu Miao was indifferent, his voice as cold as snow. "I can't let go of your hand until I'm sure your eyes aren't red. Sorry."
"It turns out to be the captain of Team Yellow." Wang Keke spoke deliberately to make her presence felt.
As expected, Guo Li struggled in frustration, angry that Lu Miao had made her lose face in front of the other team members. "Why don't you let your team members take a look at whether my eyes are red, Lu Miao!"
"I won't let them take that risk. Besides, it's suspicious that you showed up in front of the security room. Are you looking for blue clothes to wear?"
"I came to the first floor because I heard screaming! Let me go!"
Lu Miao hesitated for a moment and asked suddenly, "Do you live on the 4th floor?"
Guo Li was stunned.
"You guessed right." She continued to ask, "You don't seem to care about your neighbors. Are you the one who gathered the surviving residents? Or was it Team Yellow?"
Instantly, Guo Li stopped struggling and her body softened. "How did you guess that?"
"They are willing to gather together. Only residents with authority can do this. For example, you use the name of search and rescue to portray yourselves as people's heroes."
“Tsk.”
Guo Li had to admit that she guessed right.
The people of this era hated the government and capitalists and were afraid of the military, so she could only gather normal residents under the banner of military search and rescue.
"They call her the rising star of the Investigation Department, and she really lives up to her reputation."
Lu Miao didn't bother to think about whether she was being sarcastic or not, and suddenly let go of her hand.
Just as Guo Li reacted, her chin felt like it was being clamped by an iron, forcing her to look back.
Lu Miao saw that she had black eyes and released her chin. "Thanks to you, Team Yellow, this place is about to become a dead zone."
Guo Li's expression changed drastically, and she threw away her resentment. "It proves that our strategy is correct. The residents must work together to escape. There are less than 24 hours left, right?"
"Um."
Guo Li glanced at the clock at the end of the corridor and spoke faster: "I advise you to join us. It's almost ten o'clock. Go back and think about it. If you are willing to join, come to 407 to find me."
After saying that, she wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, glanced at Wang Keke with disgust, and ran upstairs first.
After she ran away, He Pingan spoke up: "Captain, I think her purpose of coming to the first floor is to find us."
"Of course, otherwise would you really come here to look for blue clothes?"
The three of them went upstairs while talking in low voices.
This time, even the stairs on the first and second floors were stained with bloody footprints.
"Are we going to Room 407?" Wang Keke doesn't like Guo Li. "She usually has her eyes on the top of her head and looks at people through her nostrils. She just rolled her eyes at me again!"
He Pingan: "...Is it possible that you work with heavy makeup..."
"I like it."
Back on the third floor, Lu Miao reminded the two again. "When you read the diary later, remember to pay attention to whether there are any bloodstains. After writing the diary, wait for my signal."
"receive."
"OK!"
A few minutes before ten o'clock in the evening, Lu Miao passed by a water purifier and had a sudden idea to use a paper cup to collect a cup of water from the water purifier.
Since she had opened the door and gone out several times, the room was already filled with the smell of blood from the corridor, making the pervasive fishy smell of the water even stronger. She had to get close to the cup to make sure that the water did not emit any peculiar smell.
Even the sweetness of water is faintly discernible.
Gurgle...
My hungry stomach growled even louder.
Lu Miao poured the water into the kitchen sink.
Like He Ping'an, she was used to suffering from thirst and hunger.
It was ten o'clock in the evening. Lu Miao sat at the table and opened his diary.
The content of the first diary entry will no longer change.
She carefully turned to the next page.
I see!
We were deceived!
Bullshit rules!
White is bad
What is blue?
Red is scary
Yes
Hahaha, let’s die together, no one can get out!!!
Die, die, die, die, die
Let's die together.
Lu Miao studied the scribbled words poking through the paper.
This man might have had a mental breakdown.
"It's painted black again, which is interesting." She lowered her head and showed a slightly crazy smile.
The red words of rules on the door were like bloodshot eyes, staring at her deeply.
He Ping'an who lives across the street was very unlucky, as the new changes contained blood.
Even with a quick glance, his sight seemed to be trapped in a turbulent whirlpool, and the blood-red image flashed through his mind.
He bit his tongue and kicked back, falling to the ground with the stool.
The pain woke him up and shattered the blood-red images that were invading his brain.
fortunately……
He looked up at the snow-white ceiling, breathing heavily, and the collar of his T-shirt was soaked with cold sweat.
"...blood again...could it be..." An idea suddenly occurred to him and he quickly got up.
He squatted down and turned to a blank page, wrote down two lines of binary code perfunctorily, and closed the diary.
Then, he checked the information to confirm one thing.
At 22:12 in the evening, there was a knock on the door of Room 407.
The corridor on the fourth floor was stained with blood, and the snow-white walls were smeared with bloody fingerprints. The eight unit doors were all stained with blood.
The person who opened the door was Guo Li. She smiled confidently at the three people outside. "Welcome, come in."
Lu Miao and the other two entered the house one after another.
Wang Keke and He Pingan no longer have the fluorescent green chokers around their necks.
Guo Li looked at them more but did not expose them.
Nine panic-stricken residents gathered in the room. Their faces were ashen and there were obvious dark circles under their eyes.
One of the male residents looked haggard and thin, with a chin covered with blue stubble. He was the man who knocked on Lu Miao's door.
He looked at the three new neighbors who came in, and his eyes stopped on the pink-haired Wang Keke. "Hello, I'm the person you talked to before."
Wang Keke: “???”
Do you have any misunderstanding?
Lu Miao interrupted nonchalantly, "I want to know what the purpose of gathering together is."
She glanced calmly at the two residents wearing yellow chokers - a man and a woman.
Team Yellow, including the captain, should have five people.
The other two are either in danger or hiding with other tricks to deal with.
"You have earrings like Captain Guo. Are you also from the military?" asked a gloomy woman with long hair.
Lu Miao twisted her fluorescent green film earrings and said nonsense: "Yes, green represents communication. The military sent me to assist Captain Guo."
Guo Li maintained a friendly smile and said “Haha” in her heart.
Ghost story investigators never dare to claim to be government lackeys, otherwise they will be targeted.
The name of the unit dare not be linked to the government, but has to include the word "military" and then shamelessly set up office next to the military base.
In addition to training their thinking skills to crack rules, investigators also receive physical training, so their superiors simply let them train with the soldiers at military bases.
Hearing this, the residents breathed a sigh of relief. "You two were with her?"
He Pingan shook his head expressionlessly.
Wang Keke also shook her head, looking confused.
Lu Miao explained: "I met them when I went out to look for the rules, so we gathered together. By the way, they also live on the third floor."
Wang Keke showed an innocent expression on her heavily made-up face. "I heard that we need to work together to pass the level, so we followed to see."
The residents exchanged glances.
A man and a woman wearing yellow chokers secretly rolled their eyes.
There are so many dramas.
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